JUNEWOW! Another school year is over. It feels like we just started our adventure as the extended day class of 2013! As they say,” time goes by when you are having fun!” and that was defiantly the case with us this year. It started with learning all about each other, to learning about nature and animals, to celebrating Halloween, shooting off to outer space, discovering different children’s authors, creating Alphabet books, taking adventures with Flat Stanley to exploring the United States. We will end the year with HEDP Olympics and water games. The children have had fun and worked extremely hard all year.

It has been such a pleasure to get to know all the children and watch them grow and develop over this year. OH, how they all have changed! We would like to thank all of our parents for your support this year, your children are very special to us and we thank you for letting us have the opportunity to teach them. We love their funny stories, their eagerness to learn and willingness to do new and exciting things. We appreciate all the support and understanding we received from parents throughout these ten months!

These next two weeks we are going to focus on Hawaii and the Pacific west states. We will make leis and learn to hula dance. We will build igloos out of sugar cubes and play “Pictionary”, which was invented in Washington. Hopefully if the weather cooperates we will spend some more time outdoors, playing water games and enjoying special treats in the sun! Please be sure to bring in a bathing suit, towel and water shoes for your child. On June 13th we will be celebrating our last Birthday Bash for all our summer birthdays with an ice cream social!

We wish all our Kindergarteners the best next year in first grade, as well as our Pre-K children going on to Kindergarten. We hope to see everyone next year, even if it’s just for a visit.A couple of reminders this month…*Please be sure to take home all your child’s belongings*Birthday Bash on June 13th*June 27th and June 28th HEDP will close at 4:45pm*Friday, June 28th is the last day of HEDP*Please bring in a bathing suit, towel, and water shoes by June 17th to leave at HEDP until the end of the school year.